Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:40:29 -0600, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 avr. 2010, at 19:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: News flash: it's already there! See attached. Hi Idriss, That's wonderful! :-) Could you please tell us what font you have used It's very

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-11 Thread Otared Kavian
On 3 avr. 2010, at 19:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: News flash: it's already there! See attached. Hi Idriss, That's wonderful! Could you please tell us what font you have used and give us the font features turned on to get that kind of coloring and « kashide »? Can you send

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread John Haltiwanger
2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: Let's distinguish typographical engineering from typographical programming. This will not be a book on the latter per se. Typographical engineering can be done by a non-programmer -- structured and automated processing using

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Marcin Borkowski mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote: My 3 cents: if you want to have your thesis done *quickly* and in an easy, howto - recipe - faq way, just use LaTeX (probably with amsrefs/tikz/memoir/a few others).  If you want to do more unusual things, and

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-4-2010 7:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: News flash: it's already there! See attached. more precisely: the mechanisms are there in mkiv to do that kind of coloring (already for a while) but for advanced arabic you will need that font to get similar results note:

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: Would that make it feasible to somehow chain Parrot's Lua to LuaTeX? parrot ~ luajit cfr. http://luajit.org/ Maybe some day luatex

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:15 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: Would that make it feasible to somehow chain

[NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
[Disclaimer: NOT a joke!] Dear gang, cabal, and knights of the context table, FYI: I am presently working on a book: Typographical Ontology and Engineering: Structured and Automated Authoring in Context It is a book on ConTeXt, but NOT a ConTeXtBook, ConTeXt Companion, or other clone.

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread John Haltiwanger
2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: It is a book on ConTeXt, but NOT a ConTeXtBook, ConTeXt Companion, or other clone. Rather, it aims to introduce Context as a general tool for typographical and typesetting engineering. Some of the philosophy of book design

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:41 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: As a computer engineer, one of the most import point of luatex-ConTeXMKIV is the possibility offered by Lua of an easy binding with external C/C++ shared library. This adds another dimension to literate programming,

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi luigi, On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:41:47 -0600, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: As a computer engineer, one of the most import point of luatex-ConTeXMKIV is the possibility offered by Lua of an easy binding with external C/C++ shared library. This adds another dimension to literate

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread luigi scarso
2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: Hi luigi, Now that may be TOO advanced for this book :-) though we want to have a few examples illustrating advanced possibilities http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/luatex_lunatic -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: Would that make it feasible to somehow chain Parrot's Lua to LuaTeX? parrot ~ luajit cfr. http://luajit.org/ Maybe some day luatex will be jitluatex but I don't see here a priority --- luajit is x86 specific for

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Graham Douglas
Idris Hamid wrote: == FYI: I am presently working on a book: Typographical Ontology and Engineering: Structured and Automated Authoring in Context The basic outline is I. Ontology and Theory II. Typographical Engineering in Context [including special topics, advanced techniques

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:41:31 -0600, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: It is a book on ConTeXt, but NOT a ConTeXtBook, ConTeXt Companion, or other clone. Rather, it aims to introduce Context as a general

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 02:58:37PM +, John Haltiwanger napisa#322;(a): As this is precisely my situation, perhaps I can offer you the benefit of a test-able target audience? Today I am already looking into the best route to learning TeX/mkiv in a holistic (ie not just looking for the